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W. J. LANE.

DOOR HANGER.. N0. 368,478. Patented Aug. 16, 1887..

IJNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE WILLIAM J. LANE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NE\VYORK.

DOORHANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368.478,da15e61 August16, 1887.

Application iled Angnst4, 1886. Serial N'o. 209,990. (N'o model) T0 aZZwh0m i may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. LANE, of

Ioughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and.

with the ordinary support, adapted to be at tached to the door.

In the drawings, Fignrc 1 represents a perspective view showng n1yhanger attached at the top of a door. Fig. 2 is a plan View of thehanger. Fig. 3is a vertical section through the hanger, showing itattached to the lower portion of the door.

The hanger-ways are composed of bar-iron 01 steel of eqnal length,arranged parallel t0 eael1 other, with a space between, in which theordinary wheel travels. Tl1e ends of the ways are connected together byconnecting-pieces b 12, bent approximately in U shape and riv ete(l tothe ends of the ways upon the outside thereof, so as to leave annnobstructed passage between the ways for the passage of the wheel. Tl1ebent connecting-pieces b b are of a greater width than the hanger-ways,and being placed with their sides in planes parallel with thebearng-edges of the ways they form abnt ments above and below the Sameupon each side, as shown, and as the wheel reaches one end ortl1e otherof the ways the axle of the wheel comes in contact with these abntments,which thns act as stops while the forward part of the whcel runs intothe bencl.

Ihe conncction for the door is shown as a U shaped strap, as in myaforesaid patent, and the encls are riveted to the hanger-ways and tothe connecting bent pieces by a rivet passing through the threethicknesses, as clearly shown. It will tln1s be seen that by thisconstruction an exceedingly simple an(l streng no change is necessary inthe constrncton of the hanger, as hcrenbe fo re dcscribed, to adapt itto this change of location.

It is apparent that if a stop we1e desired only on the upper edges ofthe ways, or only on the lower cdges, the edges of the wider bent endpieees could be made flash with one edge of each way; but this would n0tserve for a reversible hanger, and I therefore project the edges of thebent end pieecs on both sides above and below; bnt I do notlimt 1nyselfto the projection 0n botl1 edges.

The hanger herein described diffcrs from the hanger shown in anapplication filed by me on the 10th day of April, 1886, No. 198,465, inthis, that the ends of the way in that case are connected to each otherby bending laterally the bars which form the ways, and tlulslom ing theends of the same depth as the ways, so that there is in that case nostop on one side, while, as above explained, the hanger now claimed isformed at the ends of the ways by bent pieces of greater depth than thehangerways and project to form an abutment or stop against which theaxle of the wheel comes in contact.

I do not, therefore, l1erein broadly claim a door-hanger consisting ofhanger-ways formed of a bar 01 bars arrangecl with the larger axis invertcal planes with lateral bends atthe ends of the ways, in combinationwith vertical supports attached thereto.

I claim as my invention A door-hanger consisting of ways cornposed ofside bars arranged parallel to each other, with a space between for thewheel, bent end pieces, 1), of matcrial wider thanthe bars at each end,with' theirsides parallel with the bearng-edges of tahe side ba rs andforming abut ments for stops, sad bent end pieces being rveted 00 theside peces, and a sbrap or connection f0r attachment to the door, alsoriveted to the side bars, th e parts being con- Wtnesses: s'tructed andcombined subsbantially as de- JOHN M. DORLAND, scrbed.

PETER DORLAND.

In testimony whereof I have sgned my nam to this specification in bhepresence of two subscribng wtnesses.

WILLIAM J. LANE.

